This afternoon I stopped off at the cemetery at Green Hill Presbyterian Church in Wilmington to pay a New Year's visit to Aunt Pauline and Uncle Mac. Sitting on the grave marker was a Top Flite 2 golf ball. Apparently somebody made a really, really bad shot while playing the 16th hole at Ed "Porky" Oliver Golf Club, which borders the graveyard.
The hapless duffer should have heeded the warning on the course's hole-by-hole description: "This hole appears much longer than it is."
One of my readers offered an intriguing alternative explanation: perhaps another relative may have been following the Jewish tradition of marking a visit to a grave by leaving a pebble behind. "Maybe someone whose religion is golf visited your relatives' resting place?" she suggests.
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